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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Phonology
Fluency
2. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Cedilla
Universal Screening
Phonemic/ decodable words
VAKT
3. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Phonics
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Cognitive Assessment
Syntax
4. Final stable syllable
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5. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Grade equivalents
Criterion referenced tests
Phonological Awareness
Norm-Referenced Test
6. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
ESL
Prefix
Diagnostic tests
Profile
7. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Percentile/ percentile rank
Analytic
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
8. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Trigraph
Closed Syllable
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Impulsivity
9. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Towre
Chall's Stage 0
Pre-English
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
10. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
MSL
Accuracy
Cognition
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
11. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Direct Instruction
Reliability
Expressive language
Matthew Effect
12. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Anna Gillingham
Six basic types of syllables
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Achievement test
13. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Accent
Pre-English
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Sight Words
14. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Tactile
Six basic types of syllables
Rate
Phoneme
15. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Criterion-Referenced Test
Tactile
Derived Score
Standardized test
16. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Phonics approach
Closed Syllable
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Standard deviation
17. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Auditory Processing
Oral Language
Orthography
Samuel T. Orton
18. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Fluency
Letter naming Chart
Oral Language
Phonics
19. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
Comprehension
Standardized test
Vowel Digraph
20. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Phonics approach
Fluency
Derived Score
Ability
21. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
WIATII
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Tilde
22. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
V >
Standard score
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Derivative
23. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Quadrigraph
Impulsivity
24. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Norm-referenced tests
Vowel
Grapheme
Sound Symbol Association
25. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
V-e
V >
[-'le
Chall's Stage 5
26. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Direct Instruction
Sight Words
Visual Processing
Social language
27. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Sight Words
Keith Stanovich
ADHD
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
28. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Percentile/ percentile rank
Direct Instruction
Kinesthetic
IDEA
29. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Academic Achievement Tests
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
SBOE
Adolf Kusmaul
30. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Morphology
V-e
Dyslexia
Trigraph
31. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Vowel
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Cognitive Assessment
VC
32. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Visual Learners
Grade equivalents
Derived Score
GORT
33. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Multi-Sensory Approach
Greek layer of language
Prefix
Vr
34. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Mathew Effect
Academic Achievement Tests
Dyslexia
Vr
35. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
WIATII
Sight Words
Texas Education Code 28.06
Anglo Saxon
36. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Funding
Letter naming Chart
Age equivalent
Tactile
37. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Norm-referenced tests
Anglo Saxon
Open Syllable
Profile
38. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Standardized test
Receptive language
Accommodation
39. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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40. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Auditory Learners
Profile
Anglo Saxon
MSLE
41. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Grade equivalents
Chall's Stage 0
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Base Word
42. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Letter naming Chart
Texas Education Code 38.003
Analytic
Phonemic Awareness
43. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Percentile
Criterion referenced tests
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Accuracy
44. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Chall's Stage 2
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
V-e
Analytic
45. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Curriculum referenced tests
Battery
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
CTOPP
46. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Accent
Expressive language
Visual Learners
James Hinshelwood
47. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Universal Screening
Components of Reading Instruction
Raw score
Norm-referenced tests
48. State Board of Eduation
Accommodation
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
SBOE
49. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Pre-English
MSLE
ALTA
Components of Reading Instruction
50. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Derivative
Standardized test
Reliability